Fitness Quote by William Deresiewicz

“We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie.”

— Henry James

“I think long and carefully about what novels ought to do. They should clarify the roles that have become obscured; they ought to identify…

— Toni Morrison

“Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.”

— Marc Levy

“Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to…

— Orhan Pamuk

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

— Bille August

“To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value…

— Virginia Woolf

“... we read novels because they give us the comfortable sensation of living in worlds where the notion of truth is indisputable, while the…

— Umberto Eco

“(Novels are no use at all on days like these, they deal with people and their relationships, with themselves and others, fathers and mothers…

— Max Frisch

“When you start writing, you may think you will use the book to guide readers down certain paths and through certain themes. But, the…

— M.D. Cliatt

“Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not…

— Victoria Connelly

“...she ventured to recommend a larger allowance of prose in his daily study; and on being requested to particularise, mentioned such works by our…

— Jane Austen